Occupation: Writer Birth: March 31, 1973
Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has r….
What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the fo….
Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into ….
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold th….
There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished ….
The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred..
Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong.
To believe is human to doubt is divine..
I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice.
Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible..
A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only….
If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you..
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy..
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother ….
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways in which we engage….
That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking..
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself..